[HairOfTheDog]

And if I had a gun in my hand and a loose tiger drooling blood over a human in front of me--I wouldn't have cared about tranquilizers. I'd have shot the tiger, and more than once. I'm disturbed so many think they would act otherwise.

For the record, I agree, and so to most on this thread, that the cops did what they had to do, so you're tilting at windmills even bringing up the Meerkat incident (I think they were meerkats). They're completely different. Don't misinterpret grief that a loose tiger ~had~ to be killed with an argument that unnecessarily killing a whole population of meerkats as a precautionary measure to save the girl from having to get shots.

[biscuit jane]

Let’s contact Madeline Murray O’Hare she’ll

connect the dots.

UFO
JFK
NGO

[Mamzelle]

They can call 'em kats, they can call 'em bats, but they're really rats. Darn ugly, too, if you ask me. But they are stars at Disney.

Exotic rodents from Africa, with not a lot of history in America and our pathogens and our means of managing pathogens.

Animal lovers have a hard time coming to terms with their own misanthropy--and the fact that they relish a Porterhouse now and then.